Why using the search bar to find emojis, does it display the male and female forms, but never show the gender neutral version even though such an emoji does exist?

Someasy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 19 points –

May depend on what device you're using, can confirm Samsung does this

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Just use the one most like you or something

Perhaps the gender neutral one is the one that looks most like them..?

Yeah that's why I use it lol I'm a dude with long hair and that's what it looked like to me.

Didn't even realize it was supposed to be gender neutral

To be honest it does, but also I just feel silly asserting my gender when I'm trying to simply convey a reaction. I'm not nonbinary but I try to make things non-gendered by default unless there's a reason to. Why does anyone care about my gender as it relates to a shrugging reaction? That's where I'm at.

Non-binary Samsung user here! I use gboard anyway but also implement the person shrugging emoji a lot on discord so it pops up in my recently used quite often lol